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Visit some web sites which test and review computer hardware. Find articles comparing hardware within the same class (e.g. CPUs, mobos, RAM, graphics cards, HDDs). Pick something with a good review and good benchmarks. Check its pros and cons and if it has everything you want. If it's too expensive, check the next "best" one. Remember that if for example you've chosen a CPU you will need a compatible motherboard, and the other way around. Find reviews of the stuff you've chosen on other sites. That's how I usually pick new "stuff".
 
As the chickens would say, it's all a matter of thrust to weight ratio...
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Actually, C. Tsiolkovsky, the inventor of the Rocket Equation, made such experiments with chickens, strapping fireworks to them or hanging them to some sort of "balance" to try to quantify how much vertical force they were able to generate. He was a primary school teacher and one of those jack-of-all-trades scientists of the time. But he was also a genius.
 
And don't look for brands. Look for specs. Better buy something of a lesser known brand, that works better, than just sticking to the name of the package.

And plan things properly. If you design your own gaming PC, you can save a lot of money by just having an exact plan what your PC will be like. No component too powerful, no component too weak. Remember that the airflow in the case is very important, even if you use water cooling. Fancy lights and dozens of fans are just for posers, no need for that stuff. Ideally your gaming PC is invisible, because what counts happens on the display and through the loudspeakers. (Having headphone ports on the front of the PC case is still a very smart choice)

Especially if you can then go to the local stores and haggle for a better price for the full set of parts... I negotiated a 20% rebate the last time I bought a new mainboard combination.

And of course, reserve a few dozen Euro for the Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog... (When will the Thrustmaster HOTAS Space Shuttle be out?)
 
N_Molson said:
:jawdrops:

I'd rather say a few dozen of dozen of euros, though... :cry:
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About twice what I paid for the X-45 back then... but damn, you really start to see its advantages when learning DCS:A-10C. :rofl:

(Well, it is more than two dozen of dozen Euros, but less than three...)
 
DCS seems awfully cool and realistic, now it's another evil I have to keep away from, KSP is doing enough damage to my "productivity" (or what's left of it !) like that, thanks ! :shifty:
 
N_Molson said:
DCS seems awfully cool and realistic, now it's another evil I have to keep away from, KSP is doing enough damage to my "productivity" (or what's left of it !) like that, thanks ! :shifty:
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I bought KSP last weekend, but it didn't really harm yet. :lol: I have one crew in Orbit now.

Still managed to hit the minimum goal in the Black Dart development for this weekend, while reworking the engine model. But I discover the need for a better project management strategy... maybe I should try switching to TDD for it.
 
I downloaded and installed DCS:World yesterday. I'm probably going to start out with FC3 since I have a copy of LO:MAC already installed. Then I plan to get A-10C later this year.

Good ol' X-52 and Saitek pedals will have to be enough for me, for now anyway.
 
RisingFury said:
That depends on how much money you have to spend.
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I can spend about PHP 20,000 (or about $450) here, plus it's really a common for us to ask them to lower a prices for well...you know. :P

So we could get a discount of around 25-35% here. Which is really a big relief for me. Actually, sometimes even 40%. But that's rare.
 
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Athena said:
I can spend about PHP 20,000 (or about $450) here, plus it's really a common for us to ask them to lower a prices for well...you know. :P

So we could get a discount of around 25-35% here. Which is really a big relief for me.
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Sounds like you also have a good connection to your dealer :lol:

When I bought the parts for my second PC, the last shop that I visited by pure coincidence was run by a pair of former soldiers, who ran the "decentral acquisition" department (= who buy all the IT items and non-military spare parts), and who I visited almost every day for ordering and retrieving new material for the maintenance department. Resulted in quickly getting the best offer for the parts plus they had one Ilyama CRT left of the excellent model, that I knew from work and really tried hard to get.

It was really a Deja-Vu: You open the door, and all was EXACTLY like in the army. The faces. The huge long counter, the shelves full of parts. But without uniforms.
 
If I'm not completely mistaken:
Mojang.com was down for a bit.
Mojang.com is up now. (Or intermittently)
Minecraft has a new launcher for future updates.
1.6.1 is out.
 
Wow, the new launcher is... kind of ugly. Hopefully it'll be updated to look more like the old one and less like a hastily-assembled VB.NET program soon. :huh:
 
Izack said:
Wow, the new launcher is... kind of ugly. Hopefully it'll be updated to look more like the old one and less like a hastily-assembled VB.NET program soon. :huh:
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Mojang says it is in an early version and will definitely be getting graphical updates.
 
Quick_Nick said:
Mojang says it is in an early version and will definitely be getting graphical updates.
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Yes, I read the article, just wasn't prepared for exactly how early it would look. At first glance, I was reminded with horror of my SQL database-management course. Might never have played Minecraft again.

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Happy Totally-Not-Independance-Day to any Canadian orbinauts! Get together! Enjoy Confederation! You too, Québèc! :cheers:
 
Mun, I am coming! :lol:
 
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